Sybase DC35823-01-1500-04 manual For HP-UX, For IBM RS/6000

CHAPTER 2 Starting and Stopping Servers

For HP-UX

In HP-UX versions 10.0 and later, you cannot edit commands in the /etc/rc file, so the System Administrator must create a script that executes when the operating system starts or shuts down.

For more information about rc (1M), see the HP-UX manual page. You can model your script after the HP-UX template file /sbin/init.d/template.

After creating the start-up and shutdown script, place it in the directory /sbin/init.d. Execution scripts placed in this directory have symbolic links to directories /sbin/rcn.d where n is the system run level. The linked scripts in /sbin/rcn.d are used to control the sequencing order of the execution scripts.

For IBM RS/6000

On production systems, you can restart Adaptive Server automatically whenever the UNIX operating system restarts. To have Adaptive Server restart automatically, place the startserver command in the /etc/inittab file.

Here is a suggested format for an Adaptive Server start-up command to add to /etc/inittab:

"sybase:2:wait:/release_directory/install/startserver -f \ RUN_servername /dev/console 2>&1"

Where release_directory is the full path to the Sybase installation directory (specified as the SYBASE environment variable), and RUN_servername is the RUN_server_name file for the server you are starting.

Make sure that the entry for starting Adaptive Server follows any entry for /etc/rc.tcpip and /etc/rc.nfs in the /etc/inittab file. All network resources must be available before you start Adaptive Server; otherwise, Adaptive Server does not start. Also, your server does not start if the network is not running.

Slow start-up of network operations can also prevent Adaptive Server from starting, even when the commands in the /etc/rc.tcpip file are in the correct order. You can designate a period of time for Adaptive Server to wait before starting by inserting a sleep command before the server start-up command in the RUN_server_name file. The sleep command is in the form:

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